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Sooooo... the American Dialect Society's Word of the Year is "-ussy", and I am personally thanked in their primary scholarly reference for "-ussification", a paper called "A corpus study of phonological factors in novel English blends."

The announcement: americandialect.org/2022-word-

The paper (PDF): cla-acl.ca/pdfs/actes-2018/Dow

And my citation attached ehehehehe

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Owen Nelson

@darius congrats! 🎉

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tim 🍓

@darius nice citeussy

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kfan

@darius any plans to bring the ussybot to mastodon

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alexandra catalina

@darius darius ... congrats

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Dan Bruno

@darius “Darius Kazemi, author of the ussybot” is my favorite Borges short story

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˗ˏˋ wakest ˎˊ˗

@darius this is incredible. how proud you must be!

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MastoDon Juan

@darius
Tired: ossification
Wired: -ussification

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